Bill Ellis, Ph.D.

Bill Ellis is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Penn State Hazleton. He has served as President of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research, as well as of the American Folklore Society's Sections on Folk Narrative and Children's Folklore. His publications include Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media (Kentucky, 2000) and Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults: Legends We Live (Mississippi, 2001).

Bibliography

• A Model for Collecting and Interpreting
  World Trade Center Disaster Jokes (article)


• Making a Big Apple Crumble:
  The Role of Humor in Constructing a Global Response to Disaster (article)